Nazish’s research is on prison literature from postcolonial South Asia. She focuses on memoirs, letters and narratives that are written from inside prisons as well as the literary and cinematic representations of prison spaces that form popular imaginations about ideas of imprisonment. She looks at how writings that have emerged from carceral bondage highlight the inadequacy of the justice system and how systems of incarceration would help us understand the world outside prison walls, especially in relation to the racial, caste, class, gender and religious hierarchies. She is also interested in questions of subjectivity informed by varied histories, political conflicts, and experiences of confinement. Apart from questions of incarceration, her areas of interest include Postcolonial Studies, Black Literature, Women’s Writings, Urdu Literature, Autobiographies and Memoirs and Performance Theory.
